I truly wouldn't want to share a Christmas in Connecticut with these narcissistic people, upper middle class and yet classless. Troubled marrieds Joan Allen and Kevin Kline have two teen kids (Christina Ricci and Tobey Maguire), and Kline is having a fling with the self centered Sigourney Weaver whose husband Jamey Sheridan doesn't seem to care what she does. Their troubled son (Elijah Wood) likes to blow things up yet his awkward encounters with the curious Ricci brings him despair over their curiosity over each other's bodies. So you got a bunch of weird people here, especially the adults in the community who have spouse swapping in involving a bowl of people's car keys to determine who will sleep with who.
Not a great film by any means, this is still interesting for its oddball characters and particularly the performance of Sigourney Weaver whose character seems to be in control but is truly a mess. There's not enough time spent on individual major characters so you'll get a little bit with Allen and Kline, then a scene with Kline in bed with Weaver then Weaver dealing with her troubled son and finally the troubled son dealing with the young Ricci.
Kate Burton and Allison Janney are among the swinging housewives, show me that this is indeed a morally bankrupt neighborhood and these people certainly aren't the best to be bringing up teenagers in the turbulebt 70's during the Nixon era which leads to several funny anti Nixon diatribes by Ricci. When she is giving the Thanksgiving blessing, it's basically a serious variation of what she had done, comically in "Addams Family Values". The film gets more melodramatic as the film goes on leading to the climactic ice storm, and it's obvious that's a psychological ice storm in the minds of all of these troubled characters.
Not a great film by any means, this is still interesting for its oddball characters and particularly the performance of Sigourney Weaver whose character seems to be in control but is truly a mess. There's not enough time spent on individual major characters so you'll get a little bit with Allen and Kline, then a scene with Kline in bed with Weaver then Weaver dealing with her troubled son and finally the troubled son dealing with the young Ricci.
Kate Burton and Allison Janney are among the swinging housewives, show me that this is indeed a morally bankrupt neighborhood and these people certainly aren't the best to be bringing up teenagers in the turbulebt 70's during the Nixon era which leads to several funny anti Nixon diatribes by Ricci. When she is giving the Thanksgiving blessing, it's basically a serious variation of what she had done, comically in "Addams Family Values". The film gets more melodramatic as the film goes on leading to the climactic ice storm, and it's obvious that's a psychological ice storm in the minds of all of these troubled characters.